The Office of Federal Procurement Policy encourages agencies to make sure contractors’ past performance (PP) is “meaningly considered” in the award of all contracts except sealed bids.  This translates into at least 25% of noncost or price evaluation factors and in most negotiated procurements, past performance and price are the only evaluation factors.  OFPP believes reliance on past performance will (1) encourage contractors to perform better if they know today’s performance will affect their ability to obtain contracts later (2) eliminate poorly performing contractors and (3) put less reliance on analyzing elaborate technical proposals.  Numerous reports by government indicate widespread satisfaction with using past performance while industry is less enthusiastic where surveys show over 50% dissatisfaction levels.

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